percent per year between 2011 and 2015, down 82 percent from the growth experienced between 1990 and 2010. Teams Drive Success. It’s called teaming. In Western business culture, the concept of the strong leader is held supreme; the team is an afterthought. MORE

Over the last two weeks I've introduced PowerPoint 2010's Shape Union and Shape Subtract tools. " I've made my winning piece say "online collaboration" and the other two say "donuts" and "more team members." by AJ George. MORE

From there, we had smaller and smaller batches of people reviewing until it got down to the core team looking at the top few submissions. Great post by Tim Kastelle - Filtering, Crowdsourcing and Innovation. He’s talking primarily about Innovation pipelines based on crowdsourcing. MORE

One where we see what we have to do daily as our commitment and call of duty towards projects, clients, team, and the business. The venture failed to involve all team members and thus demonstrate the true spirit of collaboration. MORE

Gordon Snyder and Karl Kapp, a veteran ATE PI-evaluator team, will also join the webinar, talking about their successful experiences working together on funded ATE proposals. I do work as an evaluator on several National Science Foundation (NSF ) Advanced Technology Education (ATE) grants. learn a little more about the ATE programs ) I have been asked to share some of my experiences in an upcoming webinar about NSF ATE Evaluations. MORE

The LMS market is heating up by the day for past many months now and it looks like it is going, more or less, as predicted by Bersin & Associates about 6 months back – The LMS market: hotter than ever. MORE

We were looking for something that provided us with a short production and turn-around time, that our small development team could do in-house. Some challenging questions are being raised in this month’s Big Question - Voice Over in eLearning. Some of the key questions: Given the range of solutions for voice-over from text-to-speech, home-grown human voice-over, professional voice-over: how do you decide what's right for your course? MORE

A review by a separate review team/individuals is very important for any eLearning course. Earlier this month, Tom Kuhlmann talked about 10 things to do before your eLearning course goes live. His post makes great sense but what really caught my attention was the statement he began with. “It’s MORE

I bet Tony Hayward, CEO of BP, hopes and prays that his L&D teams have well-documented evidence that everyone involved with the Deepwater Horizon drill rig had been through their mandatory and compliance training. MORE

Below are a few things you definitely need to take care of: Create a team and an owner of the implementation : Early on, it is very important to clearly define a team for configuration and implementation of the LMS. Ideally these should be represented in the team formed in Step 1. MORE

On January 19th, 2010. You’ll also get an exclusive sneak peek at imaginative new “stuff” that could fundamentally change how Life Sciences teams work together online. Check out the event at the Life Sciences 2010: The Global Collaboration Imperative. __ Catalog of Recommended Books, Games and Gadgets Recommended Games and Gadgets Recommended Books Content Guide. MORE

There avatars wave good bye as the virtual world closes on March 9, 2010. The well-known virtual world called There is closing on March 9, 2010. Our hats have to go off to the team, which have in a very short time introduced a whole new suite of casual games, a completely new foundation for our user interface, improved internal efficiencies for the product, real estate, a whole new level of Community Involvement, etc, etc. MORE

A couple of studies released this summer dealing with performance and collaboration in teams merit consideration. What do you think the typical manager might say if you told them their employees don't gossip and engage one another in non-work related tasks enough? Most managers have heard of the watercooler effect without ever having the meaning of the concept sink in to their understanding of how it relates to performance and collaboration. MORE

May 2010. Performance Learning Productivity , May 28, 2010 Instructional design is not only seen as a core competency for learning and development/training specialists, but it’s a huge industry, too. A Defense of the LMS (and a case for the future of Social Learning) - Social Enterprise Blog , May 12, 2010 For some time now, I’ve seen a growing negativity toward LMS solutions by a pretty wide group folks in our space. LMS Resources - aLearning , May 8, 2010 I know, I know. MORE

How our January 2010 Predictions Played Out! As we reach the first anniversary of this blog’s introduction, we thought we’d take stock and figure out how things are going by revisiting our list of predictions for enterprise mobile learning in 2010. A.K.A. MORE

Plot (something happens) -Maybe a salesperson is trying to make a sale or a person violates a safety procedure or they must lead a team to accomplish a goal. Good stories shouldn't be relegate to only reading a novel on the beach, use them to promote learning! Storytelling is a powerful instructional tool, stories help learners contextualize information and gives them an experience-base from which they can recall techniques and actions when encountering the same situation at work. MORE

Deploy the open source LMS at your organization involving your IT team for deployment, and also ongoing maintenance. The involvement of IT team doesn’t stop at installation and configuration. Not your IT team! MORE

Instructional design teams are not familiar with this process and many entertainment game designers don’t want to dabble in corporate or academic game design (not enough mass market) so the unfamiliarity with the development process causes hesitation and, almost more importantly, causes high costs. MORE

While I've found Yugma to be a very useful tool for what the Yugma team likes to call "fluid collaboration," all the other apps you've highlighted in this post (as well as others) provide simple, useful, browser-based platforms for the same processes. MORE

One of my earlier posts asked the question, Who's on Your Team? Its focus was on the importance of social software applications in the Enterprise to the ability of distributed project team members to recognize who is on their team at any point in time, and who isn't. Organizational analysts refer to the challenge as a boundary definition problem for teams, when members are spread across large distances whether geographic or cultural in nature. MORE

hosts and develops 3D worlds to meet in online for education, team building, conferences and expositions. Here are even a few more alternatives to Second Life for you to check out. OpenSimulator or OpenSim Building in OpenSim. OpenSimulator is a 3D Application Server. MORE

I had become a “fan of a couple of other sports clubs (eg Wests Tigers) when I noticed there was no Facebook page dedicated to the Australian national football team. As my friends can attest, I’m a big Socceroos fan. MORE

Earlier today, we received emails from Brandon-Hall Group letting us know that our best value LMS – UpsideLMS – has won 5 Brandon Hall Excellence in Technology Awards (2010) awards. This is a major milestone for us and one that motivates the entire team at Upside to work harder and reach new milestones. There is no better way to start a morning than to find not one, not two, but FIVE emails with congratulations written all over them. MORE

is up - Adventures in Corporate Education , April 18, 2009 Facilitating a twitter chat - Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning , March 9, 2010 To get Twitter you gotta Tweet! In a recent conversation, I was asked what I thought about twitter as a learning tool. Over the course of the past few years I’ve moved from saying “I don’t get it” – to feeling like it’s a good addition to my Learning Tool Set. MORE

link] January 2010 January 3-4, 2010 New Presidents Program , sponsored by the Council of Independent Colleges, Marco Island, Florida, USA. link] January 3-6, 2010 International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDC), Kolkata, India. link] February 22-23, 2010. MORE

In order to meet these additional needs we’ve formed the TechSmith Customer Success Team. These sessions run 90 minutes, cost $79, will give you a detailed walkthrough of Camtasia, best practices, tips and tricks, and the opportunity to interact with the Customer Success Team. MORE

Pick a team--static or dynamic--and you'll be able to find scientific evidence to back up your choice. by AJ George If you're a habitual blog reader, then you've already been made privy to my foray into the effective use of fonts and some font resources. And you've already delved deep into color with my 4 part series on using color in learning ( color and mood , color and learning , using color for special needs , and color resources ). MORE

It’s my job to help the team realize that a clear slide for an ILT course may be very confusing in an online environment. One way that I help the team through this grieving process is with the e-learning course design document. We have a face to face meeting with the team. MORE

Secondly, I often draw the analogy that an immersive 3D experience for serious learning is not really different than creating in-class role plays or doing other immersive experiences (such as outdoor team-building events). In Learning in 3D, we asked Steve Mahaley, of Duke Corporate Education for some ways he overcomes objections and resistance from executives and others to using 3D virtual immersive environments (VIES) for learning and collaboration, here is what he said. MORE

The student teams provide a "sales presentation" defending an e-learning solution they developed in a realistic situation. In Pennsylvania, the job situation is rather bleak. More than 591,000 Pennsylvanians are jobless and the jobless rate has risen from 9.2 in June to 9.3 in July (doesn't seem like much unless you are one of the.1 who lost your job.) More Pennsylvanians are out of work than any other time in the last 20 years. MORE

The team takes a scenario — whether based on actual events or invented by a trainer — and using a variety of software, creates a 2-D or 3-D virtual training event of that scenario. Recently, there has been a lot of calls for the death of PowerPoint especially from the US Army. MORE

is up - Adventures in Corporate Education , April 18, 2009 Facilitating a twitter chat - Joitske Hulsebosch eLearning , March 9, 2010 To get Twitter you gotta Tweet! In a recent conversation, I was asked what I thought about twitter as a learning tool. Over the course of the past few years I’ve moved from saying “I don’t get it” – to feeling like it’s a good addition to my Learning Tool Set.

May 2010. Performance Learning Productivity , May 28, 2010 Instructional design is not only seen as a core competency for learning and development/training specialists, but it’s a huge industry, too. A Defense of the LMS (and a case for the future of Social Learning) - Social Enterprise Blog , May 12, 2010 For some time now, I’ve seen a growing negativity toward LMS solutions by a pretty wide group folks in our space. LMS Resources - aLearning , May 8, 2010 I know, I know.

Over the last two weeks I've introduced PowerPoint 2010's Shape Union and Shape Subtract tools. " I've made my winning piece say "online collaboration" and the other two say "donuts" and "more team members." by AJ George.

One of my earlier posts asked the question, Who's on Your Team? Its focus was on the importance of social software applications in the Enterprise to the ability of distributed project team members to recognize who is on their team at any point in time, and who isn't. Organizational analysts refer to the challenge as a boundary definition problem for teams, when members are spread across large distances whether geographic or cultural in nature.

Instructional design teams are not familiar with this process and many entertainment game designers don’t want to dabble in corporate or academic game design (not enough mass market) so the unfamiliarity with the development process causes hesitation and, almost more importantly, causes high costs.

The LMS market is heating up by the day for past many months now and it looks like it is going, more or less, as predicted by Bersin & Associates about 6 months back – The LMS market: hotter than ever.

The team takes a scenario — whether based on actual events or invented by a trainer — and using a variety of software, creates a 2-D or 3-D virtual training event of that scenario. Recently, there has been a lot of calls for the death of PowerPoint especially from the US Army.

hosts and develops 3D worlds to meet in online for education, team building, conferences and expositions. Here are even a few more alternatives to Second Life for you to check out. OpenSimulator or OpenSim Building in OpenSim. OpenSimulator is a 3D Application Server.

Deploy the open source LMS at your organization involving your IT team for deployment, and also ongoing maintenance. The involvement of IT team doesn’t stop at installation and configuration. Not your IT team!

One of my earlier posts asked the question, Who's on Your Team? Its focus was on the importance of social software applications in the Enterprise to the ability of distributed project team members to recognize who is on their team at any point in time, and who isn't. Organizational analysts refer to the challenge as a boundary definition problem for teams, when members are spread across large distances whether geographic or cultural in nature.

Instructional design teams are not familiar with this process and many entertainment game designers don’t want to dabble in corporate or academic game design (not enough mass market) so the unfamiliarity with the development process causes hesitation and, almost more importantly, causes high costs.

I had become a “fan of a couple of other sports clubs (eg Wests Tigers) when I noticed there was no Facebook page dedicated to the Australian national football team. As my friends can attest, I’m a big Socceroos fan.

There avatars wave good bye as the virtual world closes on March 9, 2010. The well-known virtual world called There is closing on March 9, 2010. Our hats have to go off to the team, which have in a very short time introduced a whole new suite of casual games, a completely new foundation for our user interface, improved internal efficiencies for the product, real estate, a whole new level of Community Involvement, etc, etc.

link] January 2010 January 3-4, 2010 New Presidents Program , sponsored by the Council of Independent Colleges, Marco Island, Florida, USA. link] January 3-6, 2010 International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDC), Kolkata, India. link] February 22-23, 2010.

A couple of studies released this summer dealing with performance and collaboration in teams merit consideration. What do you think the typical manager might say if you told them their employees don't gossip and engage one another in non-work related tasks enough? Most managers have heard of the watercooler effect without ever having the meaning of the concept sink in to their understanding of how it relates to performance and collaboration.

The student teams provide a "sales presentation" defending an e-learning solution they developed in a realistic situation. In Pennsylvania, the job situation is rather bleak. More than 591,000 Pennsylvanians are jobless and the jobless rate has risen from 9.2 in June to 9.3 in July (doesn't seem like much unless you are one of the.1 who lost your job.) More Pennsylvanians are out of work than any other time in the last 20 years.

A review by a separate review team/individuals is very important for any eLearning course. Earlier this month, Tom Kuhlmann talked about 10 things to do before your eLearning course goes live. His post makes great sense but what really caught my attention was the statement he began with. “It’s

percent per year between 2011 and 2015, down 82 percent from the growth experienced between 1990 and 2010. Teams Drive Success. It’s called teaming. In Western business culture, the concept of the strong leader is held supreme; the team is an afterthought.

In order to meet these additional needs we’ve formed the TechSmith Customer Success Team. These sessions run 90 minutes, cost $79, will give you a detailed walkthrough of Camtasia, best practices, tips and tricks, and the opportunity to interact with the Customer Success Team.

Gordon Snyder and Karl Kapp, a veteran ATE PI-evaluator team, will also join the webinar, talking about their successful experiences working together on funded ATE proposals. I do work as an evaluator on several National Science Foundation (NSF ) Advanced Technology Education (ATE) grants. learn a little more about the ATE programs ) I have been asked to share some of my experiences in an upcoming webinar about NSF ATE Evaluations.

Secondly, I often draw the analogy that an immersive 3D experience for serious learning is not really different than creating in-class role plays or doing other immersive experiences (such as outdoor team-building events). In Learning in 3D, we asked Steve Mahaley, of Duke Corporate Education for some ways he overcomes objections and resistance from executives and others to using 3D virtual immersive environments (VIES) for learning and collaboration, here is what he said.

Below are a few things you definitely need to take care of: Create a team and an owner of the implementation : Early on, it is very important to clearly define a team for configuration and implementation of the LMS. Ideally these should be represented in the team formed in Step 1.

We were looking for something that provided us with a short production and turn-around time, that our small development team could do in-house. Some challenging questions are being raised in this month’s Big Question - Voice Over in eLearning. Some of the key questions: Given the range of solutions for voice-over from text-to-speech, home-grown human voice-over, professional voice-over: how do you decide what's right for your course?

Plot (something happens) -Maybe a salesperson is trying to make a sale or a person violates a safety procedure or they must lead a team to accomplish a goal. Good stories shouldn't be relegate to only reading a novel on the beach, use them to promote learning! Storytelling is a powerful instructional tool, stories help learners contextualize information and gives them an experience-base from which they can recall techniques and actions when encountering the same situation at work.

How our January 2010 Predictions Played Out! As we reach the first anniversary of this blog’s introduction, we thought we’d take stock and figure out how things are going by revisiting our list of predictions for enterprise mobile learning in 2010. A.K.A.

On January 19th, 2010. You’ll also get an exclusive sneak peek at imaginative new “stuff” that could fundamentally change how Life Sciences teams work together online. Check out the event at the Life Sciences 2010: The Global Collaboration Imperative. __ Catalog of Recommended Books, Games and Gadgets Recommended Games and Gadgets Recommended Books Content Guide.

It’s my job to help the team realize that a clear slide for an ILT course may be very confusing in an online environment. One way that I help the team through this grieving process is with the e-learning course design document. We have a face to face meeting with the team.

While I've found Yugma to be a very useful tool for what the Yugma team likes to call "fluid collaboration," all the other apps you've highlighted in this post (as well as others) provide simple, useful, browser-based platforms for the same processes.

Pick a team--static or dynamic--and you'll be able to find scientific evidence to back up your choice. by AJ George If you're a habitual blog reader, then you've already been made privy to my foray into the effective use of fonts and some font resources. And you've already delved deep into color with my 4 part series on using color in learning ( color and mood , color and learning , using color for special needs , and color resources ).

I bet Tony Hayward, CEO of BP, hopes and prays that his L&D teams have well-documented evidence that everyone involved with the Deepwater Horizon drill rig had been through their mandatory and compliance training.

From there, we had smaller and smaller batches of people reviewing until it got down to the core team looking at the top few submissions. Great post by Tim Kastelle - Filtering, Crowdsourcing and Innovation. He’s talking primarily about Innovation pipelines based on crowdsourcing.

Earlier today, we received emails from Brandon-Hall Group letting us know that our best value LMS – UpsideLMS – has won 5 Brandon Hall Excellence in Technology Awards (2010) awards. This is a major milestone for us and one that motivates the entire team at Upside to work harder and reach new milestones. There is no better way to start a morning than to find not one, not two, but FIVE emails with congratulations written all over them.

One where we see what we have to do daily as our commitment and call of duty towards projects, clients, team, and the business. The venture failed to involve all team members and thus demonstrate the true spirit of collaboration.